16, King Street

BRISTOL

ST5872NE KING STREET, Centre 901-1/16/601 (South side) 08/01/59 No.16 (Formerly Listed as: KING STREET (South side) Nos.16-20 (Consecutive))

GV II*

Attached house, now office. c1665, C18 fenestration. Rendered timber-frame, roof not visible. Single rooms to front and rear with left-hand stair between (the original plan form). 4 storeys and basement; 1-window range. Shallow jetties to each floor with fascia boards, and C18 timber parapet with a shallow pediment in front of the roof gable. Ground floor has C19 shop front with outer doorways with scrolled consoles either side to the jetty, 6-panel doors, and C19 eight-pane shop window between above a panelled stall riser. Horned 10/10-pane sashes, larger to the first floor. INTERIOR: central right-hand framed newel stair above the ground floor, with uncut string, turned balusters and square newels with ball finials and roll-topped rail, door frames with ovolo mouldings and cyma stops, and moulded ground-floor floor beam supported by a turned samson post, possibly a former ship's spar. The gable was set back in a C18 modernisation. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 84).

Listing NGR: ST5878672691